Ким Чжи Ен - one of the most widespread Korean names for a whole generation. Thus, heroine of this novel - actually any modern south Korean woman, whose mother, after her birth forced to apologize to the parents of husband for that her child is a girl.In this novel Ким Чжи Ен passes a way from childhood to maternity and tells the history to the topsychiatrist, typical citizen to it countries.Ким Чжи Ен runs into deep-rooted gender discrimination on every stage of the life, and it strikes deeply, as at an international association South Korea already is many years associated with a highly developed, progressive culture.